Sunday, January 31, 2016

Apparently
I was a very high energy child when I was small. When I was five my
grandmother taught me how to read, since then I changed completely. I
had become shy and quiet kid since I developed habit of reading.
While still at primary school I was going to the library every day or
so. I was fascinated by books, nothing compared to them.

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I'd
rather spend my time with them than with kids in my age. In the high
school I was a loner and single – but I didn't care as long as I
had my books. I was reading less, mostly 19thcentury
authors. In the university for the first time I felt sort of fed up
with books. At the age of 25 I stopped reading and never missed it
since.

Unfortunately
for me, I started writing. So there I am, chasing after the
publishers and making fool of myself. And maybe, just maybe if my
grandmother Bronisława wouldn't taught me how to read at age 5 I
could be a happy dentist now (and I would have a lot of fun in the
high school).

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

I'm
not a big fan of science-fiction but I like a lot the third of
“Riddick” film series. The title character has been left for dead
on a sun-scorched planet. At certain point severely wounded Riddick
is fighting for survival against scorpion-like creatures called Mud
Demons. It seems that he hasn't got any chance but he's battling
anyway. “The crisis is the best blessing because brings progress”
- Einstein
wrote.

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“It
is in crisis that invention, discovery and large strategies are born.
Who ever overcomes crisis, outdoes himself without being overcome.
Who attributes their failures to the crisis and neglects, violent his
own talent and gives most respect to the problems rather than
solutions. The real crisis is the crisis of incompetence”.

When
“life is brutal” one is waiting and hoping that things would go
better but sometimesonly
hoping is a recipe for disaster. Riddick
would fight till the last breath - and he was right: the last
“hopeless battle” saved him. “Get it over with the only crises
threatening, that is the tragedy of not wanting to fight for it” -
Einstein wrote.

Sunday, January 24, 2016

It's
been five years that we live in Italy but only last summer I sort of
enjoyed going to the seaside. I don't like sunbathing. I'd be sitting
on a towel, thinking about skin cancer and prickly heat rash. Last
June I decided I'll overcome my fear of water and learn how to swim.
I bought blue swim belt and started “aquatic exercise”.

At
first I just tried to float with my body as horizontal as possible.
Then I was learning arm movement and breathing together. After some
time I decided to take off my blue belt. Finally there I was,
“swimming” from the buoy to the beach, singing “Medusa's song”
(which I invented) in my mind. It was one of the best moments ever.

One
hot day in August I adventured myself a bit farer. A woman was giving
swimming lesson to her young son, at certain point I heard her
screaming: “Help me!”. Two good looking life-savers would
hurry-up to help her. I was impressed and left my “dangerous”
place. When your feet touch the ground, it's much safer…

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

“Bloody
environmentalist
just say no to everything!” - S. said. I didn't comment knowing
that he doesn't really care. “The time has come, now it's not only
environment, but also people to pay!” - I thought. “Canadian
company started bottling out Rocky
Mountains air as a joke, but has seen its product fly off the
shelves in pollution-hit China”.

In
China fresh air is so precious that one pays £10 for 7,7 litre can.
Beijing is struggling with hazardous pollution levels. The red alert
in December caused schools' closure, for a period of time the people
were told to stay indoors. “We want to give people the opportunity
to inject a little bit of fresh air into their daily lives” -
Vitality Air’s China representative says.

But
it's not a solution. Global clean energy investment hits record $329
billion in 2015. Wind and solar power is cheaper don't create harmful
impacts on environment. The renewable energy industry is more
labor-intensive than fossil fuel technologies, which are typically
mechanized. This means that more jobs. “Bloody environmentalist”
may have the right!

Sunday, January 17, 2016

I
heard about the woman who suddenly lost her beloved husband. She was
absolutely distraught and become depressed. Her teenage kids had to
be her careers. Years passed by but she never got better, the family
is suffering along with her. “Every emotional pain leaves behind a
residue of pain that lives on in you.” - Eckhart
Tolle says.

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“This
accumulated pain is a negative energy field that occupies your body
and mind - the emotional pain-body. Some people live almost entirely
through their pain-body. It can only survive if it gets you to
unconsciously identify with it. It can become you and live through
you. It will create a situation in your life that causes further
pain.”

“Once
the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a
victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict pain, or you want to
suffer.” One would say: “Rubbish!” – but his thinking and
behaviour do keep the pain going. Keep thinking about the pain from
the past and you'll experience it for the rest of your life. Don't
think, observe it, Tolle wrote.

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

A
1982 Italian comedy “Come forward, idiot”: Pasquale is relased
from prison. He knows an address where once one would pay for sex but
doesn't know that now it's private dentist's practice. Pasquale:
“How much it costs?”. Dental Assistant:“For
fulfilment?”. P.:
“Bloody hell, you're genius. You invent everything right… Yes,
for fulfilment”.

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A.:
“More or less 20 000”. P.:
“So five, five fulfilments”. A.:
“Five fulfilments?”. P.:
“Well it's been two years that...”. A.:
“Do you prefer the owner or her husband?”. P.:
“Ah you're doing mixed games here...”. Living in Poland I thought
that Italian cinema means Roberto Benigni. I saw several times “Life
is beautiful” and “The monster” in the TV.

Nobody
heard of Carlo Verdone – and he's great. “Fun Is Beautiful”
(1980): lonely Enzo thinks that Poland is a good country for sex
tourism. He's buying a lot of ballpens and tights: he believes that
Polish girls would do everything for that. But my No.1 Italian film
is (also not known in Poland) “An average little man” with
extraordinary Roberto Sordi.

Saturday, January 9, 2016

One
of my my mom's stories: once upon a time (in the 1960's) there was a
girl who wanted to get married. Her neighbour's son worked in the
factory far away from the village. She asked him to bring her over a
man. “He can be small and even red-hair!” - She used to said.
“What matters he's a guy!” No study can show definitively that
getting married will make you happier.

They
are scientific
seasons that being creative – yes it would. In October started my
PLAMA
page
– not a big success though:) Then I wrote a children story Jasmine
and Italian mouseand
illustrated it. I couldn't resist sending “Jasmine” to publishers
and after one or two weeks I got my first rejection. Very quick:)

The
girl from my story got her guy eventually: the son of her neighbour
presented her a man who (they say) was handsome and had a good job.
They got married and lived happily until he died after they
tragically lost their son. Then she was lonely again. The illusion of
waiting for the future to be happy.

Thursday, January 7, 2016

“Which
publisher is the best and the cheapest?” - Someone on my fb group
for writers asked. Finding “traditional” publisher is hard, but
vanity press is not that selective. They make profit on authors and
economize on everything. They print small amount of copies (usually
about 300) which is available on Internet.

Their
business is selling publishing packages, not books. Why not
publish a book on your own? You can find a developmental editor and
pay him to make sure everything flows. An “author-editor” may
hire someone to make cover design. Formatting for print, getting and
ISBN, getting your book printed – it's the easiest thing.

The
toughest part is marketing, but subsidy publisher won't do it. How
many of their books you see on bookstore shelves? In the end of the
day, either we publish on our own or pay vanity press – in each
case author is the only one who believes in his book. Let's be
realistic in our expectations. Do the promotion and be excited at
your success!

Sunday, January 3, 2016

I
got 50 000 page views few days ago. The more I'm blogging; the more
I'm into it. All the time I find out something new. Recently I
discovered “Shadow-Blog”. Let's say that Klara started very
successful lifestyle blog in 2013. Some time later appears Klara
Bella: she writes about the same topics, but it's not very popular.

the photo from teologia.deon.pl

Klara
Bella fallows Klara, she's leaving the comments on her blog and on
those which her Klara's commenting too. “Not-Blogger” is not
writing much. You can notice him on popular blogs, he's complimenting
the authors: “I love it! Cheers, you're great people!”. He's very
active on Google Plus, but his own blog is quite empty.

He
would mostly link to the others or say: “Be aware of that nasty
hater!”. I talked about it with my husband, some time ago he
started his “erudite” blog. “I'm sure that Klara Bella is
having more page views than you!” - I told him. “I bet she has. I
don't know if in the last month anyone read my blog!”. He's got a
lot to learn…